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While the United States has once again displayed its humanitarian largess by permitting Iraq to sell oil for food, back home in Baghdad, the Iraqi spin doctors will have very little difficulty in casting this as a major victory for Saddam Hussein.

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The closeness of the Israel election results indicates that the choice was not between peace and security. Israelis want both peace and security. The new government will take both paths. The pundits have characterized this election as a choice between the two and have therefore failed to recognize that the terms are mot mutually exclusive. There can be peace with security. In fact, peace without security is neither peace nor security.

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Almost very banner headline in the country declares that the PLO revoked the amendment to its charter calling for the destruction of Israel. Editorials throughout the country have praised Arafat for being able to coalesce the disparate group which met in Gaza. But don't bring out the champagne because despite what you have been reading, it isn't true.

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Tom Neumann, JINSA's Executive Director, was a panelist at a program devoted to discussing Palestinian issues. Other panelists included Mr. Khalil Foutah, the PLO Representative in Washington, Amb. Clovis Maksoud of the Center for the Study of the Global South and Laila Baha of the Arab League. Clearly, it was a one-sided panel, but we thought it would be worth sharing some of the points discussed in the forum.

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President Hafez al Assad of Syria was invited to attend the anti-terrorism conference to be held in Egypt this week. He has declined to attend. Assad had also failed to condemn the acts of terror in Israel last week and continues to allow the political offices of HAMAS to remain in Damascus. Lebanon, as of this writing, has also declined to attend the anti-terrorism conference. Libyan leader Moammar Quadafi said that the terrorism will only end if Israel and the United States are destroyed.

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China has recently sold modern anti-ship missiles to Iran and violated nuclear non-proliferation agreements by selling nuclear fuel enrichment equipment to Pakistan. At the same time it has stone-walled the U.S. on trade issues and disregarded internationally recognized standards for human rights.

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Russia's failure to implement any of the nuclear security weapons inspection agreements announced by President Clinton and President Yeltsin at their summit meeting last May, is another indication that the political winds in Russia are changing. The Russians have suspended the talks which would work out he logistics of the agreement and no plans have been made to proceed with the negotiations.

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For those engaged in the debate about whether the "new world order" constitutes a changed Russia or merely a hiatus in Russian-American confrontation, the appointment of Yvgeni Primakov as the new Foreign Minister for Russia should answer the question.